DarkGob

This is not how the power worked the last time I played a toon who has it. I have it in Super Speed on that character and it would only activate when I toggled on SS. Has the enhancement changed?

If only they had said something like "it might come out on day X, but if it doesn't then it'll be some time after day Y", that would have been a lot more clear.

Well you certainly have me there.

You've never actually read a Superman comic, have you. Kryptonite has always been stupidly common.

Wow, and I thought the 8-day delay on Monk and House was bad.

I've gotta be honest, I'm extremely wary about taking Thunderstrike. I'm already irritated by the occasional knockback from Havoc Punch knocking enemies out of my Static Field, I can't imagine the problems Thunderstrike will cause. (Anyone have any strategy suggestions on this, because I'm seriously stumped.) I'm not really sure what you're taking in the absence of the ranged powers though, I didn't find my build to be that tight when I was putting it together.

As far as Jolting Chain goes, it's not a "use all the time" power like Static Field but it's definitely a handy source of extra mitigation when necessary, especially in the low levels, especially before Static Field (have I mentioned this power enough? freakin' love it).

Of course, gamma radiation doesn't turn you into a giant green monster either.

Working as intended.

Nobody here is saying that the game was completely unplayable before this change, please take your strawman back to the farm where it belongs. Obviously anyone who actually had this opinion left the game long ago.

Allowing us to take Stamina earlier would have been another possible solution, but that would require the devs to change either how one power pool works, or how all of them work. It's safe to assume they didn't want to do the latter, and the former might have been more trouble than it was worth, programming-wise. (Although it occurs to me that this is exactly how the 60 month Veteran Reward works.) Even if you did that though, you're still using up 3 power picks on most characters in order to make the game not frustrating. Can you honestly say that you get really excited when you hit level 6 or 8 and end up having to take Swift/Hurdle so you can be on schedule for Stamina at 20? Or at having to put off the tier 6 power that is unlocked from your secondary at level 20 so you can take Stamina?

Let's face it, ultimately this is just a patchwork solution for what was, at its core, a poor design decision made when the game first came out. Base recovery was actually buffed some time ago as an attempt at making Stamina less necessary, but obviously it wasn't enough. Instead of just continuing to guess on recovery buffs, why not just shift the status quo down 18 levels?

Personally I think the pre-20 game was boring crossed with irritating when you had to waste 3 power picks on auto powers, had to wait until at least level 14 before you could move at any speed that didn't feel like slow as molasses, and had to wait until level 20 before you could start playing and stop huffing wind after every battle.

Nope, no doom here. Just actual fun, and it's about damn time.

Badge text has definitely improved over the legacy badges. I loved reading the badges that were introduced last issue (Flying Shark has got to be my favorite one just for the visual).

Seriously? Guy makes one mistake about an extremely minor feature, apologies for it (albeit kind of late), and now you can't trust anything he says forever and ever ever ever?

Are you still going to be complaining about this ridiculously minor detail a year from now?

Not totally. You need it for Apex/Tin Mage.

I love cats, I just find this one irritating.

The reasons why this will never happen have been explained. There's no reason for another thread about it. There's no reason for more discussion of it. Thus, this thread has no value, and is spam.

Dare I even imagine...could this eventually be expanded to include salvage?